Berber Odes: Poetry of Place

Berber Odes: Poetry of Place

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The poems in this volume come for the most part from the Middle Atlas region of central Morocco, which are representative of a particularly rich, Heroic Age culture that has survived in oral form, more or less unimpaired. Never before have these traditional odes been translated into English.

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